Hi, my name is Jennifer St. Surin and I will be sharing my experiences on observing Laguardia Community College's Writing Center.
The session starts of with the student explaining her assignment, she tells the tutor that the assignment is due the next day and have no other time to do this assignment besides now. She also states that English is not her best subject and she starts to express how much she hates ENG 101. The tutor disregards her comments and begin to read the passage that the student has to respond to in 250 words. After reading the passage the tutor ask the student "is there anything in the passage you would like to focus on?" She replies yes, and shows the tutor what she enjoyed most in the passage. The tutor suggests to reflect on that section that the tutee is the most interested in her 250 word response. The tutor continues to read the passage and start to point out important details that would stand out in her response. What I noticed is that this session was mostly concerned on the HOC (high order priorities) of the tutee's assignment. The tutor wraps up his session and begins to list numerous goals for the tutee to reach to as she finishes up her assignment once she gets home.
Overall, I enjoyed my first observation of the writing center here at Laguardia Community College I've learned so much in just one session!
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Hi, I am Tiffany. This passage was kind of short. I felt like it could have been more descriptive. You could have went into more detail about how the session went and how did the tutor feel about the student after the session was over. Your passage somewhat reminds me of a session that I attended to observe & I noticed that all the tutors usually focus on the HOC. Overall, the passage was good I just would have liked to see more details.
hi my name is wen.....the student does not sound thrilled to be there.It looks like the tutor was being supportive not making the student uncomfortable in any ways.she was able to read through the students work and tell her she needed to focus on. The student also told her the best part of her paper which was great i think over all the student was having a change of heart after she got the reinforcement from the writing center.
hi, my name is Bianca, I liked this blog and how she pointed out it was Hoc, i defiantly liked that the tutor didn't give the tutee a response when she said she hated English, she kept it professional, she continued doing her job, this observation was different from mines because unlike the tutor here who didn't talk to the tutee about anything but the tutee's work, the tutor i observed talked a little bit about something that happened in her life to the tutee
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